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Contemporary History That Ignores Alternative Voices Is Neither Complete Nor Truthful| Countercurrents
In recent decades alternative explanations that are very different from official ones have emerged in the context of several events of great historical importance. Those who have come up with alternative explanations have also included some distinguished scholars and other professionals with specialized knowledge relating to events (such as former government and intelligence officials, or experts of disaster-response and crime prevention).
Biden’s Legacy Is Written In Blood | Countercurrents
Last week, aerial photos from Los Angeles with blocks of homes reduced to ash hit social media timelines, leading people to understandably draw comparisons to Gaza. Destruction of entire neighborhoods is always heartbreaking. Home, where most of us spend a great deal of our time, shapes who we are. The memories and love a home can hold are much larger than whatever the square footage may be.
Trump’s Inauguration Inspires Some, Divides Others
To the delight of the MAGA crowd, today’s inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States is a dream achieved. In ensuring a peaceful transition, the streets have been flooded with police from across the country, accompanied by road closures and blockades along with security fencing to create a wide perimeter around the Capitol and the White House. The net effect, oddly, is not too dissimilar to that which existed in the aftermath of the J6 insurrection.
Donald Trump's War On Migrants| Countercurrents
This country, once a haven for immigrants, is now on the verge of turning into a first-class nightmare for them. President Donald Trump often speaks of his plan to deport some undocumented immigrants from the United States as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” Depending on how closely he follows the Project 2025 policy blueprint of his allies, his administration may also begin deporting the family members of migrants and asylum seekers in vast numbers.
Report| Countercurrents
Ocupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli newspaper Maariv reported that close associates of US President-elect Donald Trump have delivered a concerning message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to the report, Trump remains upset with Netanyahu despite their meetings and public displays of warmth. The message suggests Trump has completely lost trust in Netanyahu. Leaks indicate Trump is considering a regional normalization deal in the Middle East.
The International Community Failed To Stop Israel’s Genocide, But Must Not Fail To Hold It Accountable| Countercurrents
Geneva – With the announcement of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas effective as of tomorrow, Sunday, 19 January 2025, the international community must act quickly and decisively to guarantee accountability and justice for the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Bitter Harvests: The Gaza Ceasefire
Twinning the terms “ceasefire” and “Gaza” seems not only incongruous but an obscene joke. This is largely because the ceasefire announced on January 15 between Israel and Hamas could have been reached so much earlier by all the concerned parties. But will was lacking in Washington to force Israel’s hand, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was repeatedly of the belief that Hamas had to be unconditionally defeated, if not extirpated altogether, for any such arrangements to be reached.
Trump's 2nd Inauguration On Martin Luther King's Birthday| Countercurrents
Noting a Coincidence As it turned out, Trump’s 2nd Inauguration as President of the United States of America falls on Martin Luther King’s birthday, a federal holiday (King being the only American to be presently so honoured).
Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, And Gaza| Countercurrents
Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are the Dead Nostalgic?” It’s a touchy philosophical question that has no definitive answer. It seems flippant in an impossible way, which it is, but its flippancy holds a secret message. So I asked the dead who would speak to me and got a few mixed and muffled replies. You can understand their reluctance to say anything.
How Biden Undermined Human Rights
When Joe Biden stepped into the Oval Office in January 2021, he made some big promises. He vowed to restore America’s moral leadership, break away from Trump’s cozy relationships with dictators, and make human rights a top priority in U.S. foreign policy. It sounded like a fresh start. And, at first, it really seemed like Biden was serious.
Longing For Hypocrisy| Countercurrents
“Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays virtue. “ Indeed. Take for instance the outpouring of rhetorical grief after George Floyd’s brutal murder. Leaders of companies of all sizes instructed their social media teams to send messages of solidarity, lamentation, and hope too– via the usual channels. Some even pledged money to help “lift” communities that had been disadvantaged.
Friends Feel The Heat As The USA Reworks Its Dominance Strategy| Countercurrents
The “only thing worse than being the United States’ enemy is being its friend.”—Henry Kissinger This embarrassing statement by one of USA’s top diplomats was wished away by saying that it was meant to be a joke. Yet at times it came frighteningly close to reality, particularly in the case of those countries—Ukraine is the latest example—which had the misfortune of being selected to fight the USA’s proxy wars.
Finding Hope In The Negative Spaces Of The Trump Era| Countercurrents
The expression “punch-drunk,” Google informs me, means “stupefied by or as if by a series of heavy blows to the head.” Google’s Oxford Language entry then offers a not-terribly-illuminating example of the term’s use: “I feel a little punch-drunk today.” Right now, a better one might be something like: “After November 5, 2024, a lot of people have been feeling more than a little punch-drunk.” Learning on the night of November 5th that Donald Trump had probably been reelected president...
Joe Biden Is an Accomplice to the Slaughter of Thousands of Palestinian Children
Joe Biden should be tried and convicted of illegally providing American bombs and planes for genocide, but not before being forced to watch videos of some of the thousands of Palestinian kids murdered or maimed by Biden’s bombs and warplanes.
Shortly Following US Veto Supporting Israel’s Genocide, Israeli Airstrike Kills 66 Near Northern Gaza Hospital
Gaza (Quds News Network)- A few hours following an American veto against stopping the genocide, an Israeli airstrike on a residential neighborhood near Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza has killed 66 people, most of them children and women, and left over 100 injured. The massacre is part of an intensifying Israeli assault on northern Gaza, marked by heavy shelling and starvation in areas like Beit Lahia and Jabalia Refugee Camp.
Israel Kills A Child Every Two Days In The West Bank| Countercurrents
Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- A disturbing surge in violence against Palestinian children has emerged in the occupied West Bank since October 7, 2023. According to United Nations data, 171 children have been killed by Israel in this period, averaging the death of a child every two days. Over 1,000 more have been injured, many with live ammunition. The youngest victim was a 4-year-old girl killed near a checkpoint in January while sitting in a taxi with her mother, reported The Guardian.
Israel And America Pursued Fraudulent Scenarios Of Peace And Ceasefire In War On Gaza| Countercurrents
Warmongers Defy Truth, Peace and Human Values At today’s UNSC meeting on Gaza, the US once again used the veto power to reject the majority supported resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. Ironically, since May the US Secretary Blinken propagated a “ceasefire” plan orchestrated by Israel, not so. But it was simply to buy time and space to continuously bomb the already obliterated strip of Gaza and to put a finishing answer to the freedom of Palestine.
Famine Sets In Northern Gaza
Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital said Israel is blocking the entry of food, water, medical staff and materials destined for the north Gaza. He said that a large number of children and elderly people continue to arrive at the hospital suffering from malnutrition. Unfortunately, cases of malnutrition are starting to increase. He said that since yesterday, 17 children have arrived at the emergency room showing signs of malnutrition.
Stare Into Gaza| Countercurrents
That is Gaza behind me. The fence line is 600m away. The northern part of Gaza, where Israel is carrying out a genocide within a genocide, systematically starving 300,000 Palestinians to death, is about 2km further. The absurdity and the obscenity of being able to be this close to 20,000 murdered children, their bodies “prophetic voices from under the rubble” as a colleague called them, is difficult to accept.
Polarization And New Campaign Strategies| Countercurrents
The campaign for the Maharashtra Assembly elections has reached its final stage, heating up the political atmosphere in the state. This election presents a direct clash between two major alliances. On one side is the BJP-led “Mahayuti,” which includes the Shiv Sena (Shinde faction) and Ajit Pawar’s NCP. On the other side is the opposition alliance “INDIA,” comprising the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray faction), Sharad Pawar-led NCP, and the Congress.
Israel's Own Leaders Incite Anti-Semitism By Ordering Jewish Pilots To Murder Thousands Of Children| Countercurrents
Anti-Semitism has a long and tragic history, rooted in various cultural, economic, religious, and political factors, yet at the same time, anyone with half an education can reel off names of the inordinate number of renowned Jewish thinkers, philosophers, inventors, composers, physicians, artists, singers, musicians, educators, actors, movie producing moguls and comedians revered as seminal contributors to Western civilisation from Maimonides and Spinoza through Einstein and beyond.
A God Ordered Theft of Land and Genocide
Israeli Jews Follow Their Hebrew Bible! “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.” Genesis 15:18 “You must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Bibi, You Are Not Going To Win This War| Countercurrents
Look Israel, you are not going to win the war so stop acting as if you are going on to win it! The sooner Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu realizes that the better it would be for everyone. But will he? Netanyahu is on a rollercoaster. Unable to finish off Gaza and Hamas, he turns his army to Lebanon and Hezbollah but he is soon stuck in the ‘mud’ there despite the mass bombing, the destruction and the murder of innocent civilians.
A Year Of Israel’s Genocide And The Collapse Of World Order| Countercurrents
Palestinian Territory – Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has released a comprehensive report marking one year since Israel launched its genocidal campaign against civilians in the Gaza Strip on 7 October 2023. During this period, Israel has committed grave war crimes, with the explicit complicity of the international community.
Reflections On October 7| Countercurrents
A commentary on October 7 stimulated by an interview with an independent Turkish journalist, Naman Bakac Q: how do you briefly evaluate the last year regarding the October 7th operation in terms of HAMAS, Palestine and Israel?
Israelis Follow Their Hebrew Bible! 'God Ordered, Take Their Land Which I Give Thee And Kill Everyone' | Countercurrents
Genesis 15:18 “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates.” Deuteronomy 2:16 2:17 “You must not let any living thing survive among the cities of these people the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Why Never a Mention of Ukrainian Government Killing Its Ethnic Russian Citizens?
For sure since its 2023 invasion Russia has been taking a horrific amount of Ukrainian lives and causing a vast amount of injuries as most all wars do, however the constant and much longer ongoing killing and injuring during the Ukrainian civil war since the overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014, has been entirely and utterly unmentioned in the hegemonic media of the West (as witnessed by this writer, who has been following this absence daily in both internet...
Israel Tightens Restrictions On Food, Medicine At Gaza Crossings| Countercurrents
Gauze, diapers and antibiotics. Kitchen utensils, baby formula, fresh vegetables and shampoo. These basic supplies are included among a long list of items that Israel has restricted entry into Gaza for months, as diseases and hunger soar across the coastal enclave. Historically, such items and similar essentials have been banned or restricted entry into Gaza during Israel’s 17-year-long siege.
A Writer’s Determination To Give Voice To The People Of Gaza| Countercurrents
I once objected to an assignment I was given by my English literature professor. The assignment was to record voice-overs for a video reciting lines from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” But I didn’t really like my voice. “Your voice is a revolution, not a shame,” my professor, the late Refaat al-Areer, said to me. It was a concise sentence, yet it affected me deeply, both personally and professionally.
The Israeli Army Continues To Escalate Its Attacks On The Gaza Strip During The Polio Vaccination Campaign| Countercurrents
Palestinian Territory – Israel has continued its military attacks on the Gaza Strip during its polio vaccination campaign, ignoring all calls to implement a humanitarian truce or a temporary halt to attacks during the vaccination hours. Israeli aircraft and tanks continue to bomb the central Gaza Strip, the area where the polio vaccination campaign has begun.
Biden And Harris Call For Escalation Of Gaza Genocide Following Death Of Six Israeli Hostages| Countercurrents
The US political establishment responded to the deaths of six Israeli hostages in Gaza on Saturday with demands for an intensification of the genocide against Palestinians and expansion of war in the Middle East. After the Israeli military confirmed the six bodies retrieved from a tunnel in Rafah were hostages, President Biden issued a statement saying, “Make no mistake.
Recruitment Of Educators In UP Is Against The New Education Policy| Countercurrents
Anganwadi workers across Uttar Pradesh are currently on a path of protest. In various districts like Moradabad, Pratapgarh, Sonbhadra, Lucknow, Gonda, Prayagraj, Mau, Jaunpur, and Fatehpur, Anganwadi workers have staged demonstrations opposing the recruitment of educators by the Uttar Pradesh government. Their demand is that the government should allow Anganwadi workers to perform this role and increase their honorarium instead of recruiting new educators.
Israelis Continue To Kill Thousands Of Children Unaware The Dead Children Have Come To Be Their Own | Countercurrents
There is a universal principle of humanity that transcends religious and sociopolitical boundaries, emphasising the protection and care of children as a fundamental responsibility shared by all of humanity. This principle is rooted in the recognition of children’s vulnerability and their inherent right to safety, security, and the opportunity to grow and thrive. Universal Empathy: The instinct to protect children is deeply embedded in human empathy.
Agent Orange And Biden’s Hypocrisy| Countercurrents
“For all their sacrifices, the American soldiers were almost irrelevant.” – Frances Fitzgerald Fire in the Lake Years ago, I had read somewhere that a war does not really end when the last soldier leaves the battlefield and goes home. The aftermath of destruction that a war leaves behind can be a monumental task to undertake in order to rebuild a nation and its morale. Each war ends with terrible costs to both the winners and the losers.
Will the U.S. Continue to Help Israel Kill Palestinians and Steal Their Land Right Up to the November Election? - Global Research
With coverage of the Paris Olympics and the novelty of a woman presidential candidate, and her ever provocative rival former President Trump vying for public attention, it will be some time before much CIA-overseen main stream media attention, if any, will revert to modest coverage of the colossal loss of Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank.
How To Unmask The Insanity Of War On Gaza And Arab-Muslim Leadership Complicity?| Countercurrents
Global Leadership Failure to Stop the Insanity of War For over ten months, ferocious conceptions of good and evil push mankind to a tragic abnormality of human suffering being witnessed across Gaza and the West Bank, Palestine. American and Western European leaders use violent assumptions and vivid language to reflect on catastrophic humanitarian cataclysm happening in Gaza, plagued with delusional ideas to spearhead a warmongering culture across the Middle East.
Germany Must Reconsider Its Extreme Support For Israeli Aggression| Countercurrents
One of the most surprising as well as distressing aspects of the international response to the middle-east crisis relates to the almost unconditional support that Germany has extended to Israel’s genocidal actions against the people of Gaza. How can the government of Germany, which in the past has been speaking so much of protecting human rights, possibly justify this? Both its policy and the grounds on which it is supposed to be based should be questioned and challenged.
Israel Is Losing Parts Of Its North To Hezbollah, Jewish Mayor Fears | Countercurrents
The north of Israel is in a complete mess. The regions near the Lebanese border have been taking a battering since 7 October 2023 when Israel launched its deadly war and slaughter on Gaza. Head of the Higher Galilee Council Giora Zaltz stated, Saturday, said Hezbollah’s military operations in the north of Israel are becoming more deadly and powerful and the level of security in these northern regions has long deteriorated.
Initial Euro-Med Monitor Investigation Finds No Evidence Of Military Presence At Site Of Tab’een School Massacre In Gaza| Countercurrents
Palestinian Territory – Initial investigations by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor found no proof or indication of any military operations or combatants at the Tab’een School in Gaza City, whose prayer hall Israel targeted in a brutal massacre that claimed the lives of over 100 Palestinians.
When Will You Act On Israel's War Crimes?| Countercurrents
Dear International Criminal Court judges, It is now beyond dispute: Israel has set out systematically to eliminate every aspect of Palestinian life in Gaza. It is not just the 186,000 lives that the Lancet estimates to have been lost. It is more than that. You have already witnessed: 1. The most intensive bombing of any densely populated urban area in living memory 2. The most deliberately targeted starvation of a population in post-WW2 history 3.
Israel Kills 100 People Performing The Dawn Prayers
More than 100 Palestinians were killed and dozens injured, Saturday morning, after Israeli occupation forces bombed the “Al-Tabi’een” school, which houses displaced people in the Al-Daraj neighbourhood east of Gaza City. Hello my dear friends, đ„ș Our morning is sad today, the Al-Tabi'een School that shelters the displaced people in our area was targeted, đ± This targeting led to the fall of more than 100 martyrs and dozens of wounded and injured, đ° There is no safe place here.
Will U.S.A. Continue To Help Israel Kill Palestinians And Steal Their Land Right Up To November? | Countercurrents
With coverage of the Paris Olympics and the novelty of a black/Indian woman presidential candidate, and her ever provocative rival former President Trump vying for public attention, it will be some time before much CIA-overseen main stream media attention, if any, will revert to modest coverage of the colossal loss of Palestinian life in Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel Destroys Gaza And Palestine And Arab Leaders Lost The Future| Countercurrents
Monsters of Histroy Defy Truth, Justice, Sanctity of Life and Earth Horrors of insanity and Israeli war continued to plague the entire Arab region and people of Gaza and Palestine are being subjected to planned crimes against humanity and genocide without any global challenge to the catastrophic atrocities. Since May, the bogus Three-Phase so called Israeli formula for a ceasefire remains a puzzle to rational understanding.
The Criminality of Prime Minister Netanyahu: Global South Sees U.S. Congress Hail Israeli Killer of 39,000 of Their People Mostly Women and Kids - Global Research
The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that as of the end of July, 2024, more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israeli military using hegemon U.S.A.’s mighty weapons of mass destruction.[1] A good deal of people in the awakening Global South have learned that those tens of thousands precious Palestinian lives of mostly women and children were ordered taken by the criminally insane Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Gaza That Haunts Me
It took me about eight months to sit and write about Gaza. Like most people, I went through a wide range of emotionsthat ranged from severe depression to severe helplessness, accompaniedby crying from pain I have never felt and disappointmentfrom a “free” and “unfree” world. Emotionally, I am no longer myself. As much as Gaza has hurt me, it changed me to the core.
Will Kamala Harris Pivot On Gaza And Win The ‘Uncommitted’ Vote?| Countercurrents
As the surreal and high-stakes 2024 Presidential election careens through its surprising twists and turns, one thing is near certain—at the finish line the election will be decided by a relatively small margin. U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, as the likely Democratic nominee, would do well to appeal to the over 650,000 people who voted for “uncommitted” or cast other protest votes in the primary.
Language As An Instrument Of The Dehumanization Of Palestine| Countercurrents
A cursory look at the history of the implantation of the Zionist state in the heart of Palestine and the events that ensued is enough to make it clear beyond the shadow of a doubt that Palestinians have been subjected to systematic oppression and injustice. When October 7 happened, it was not difficult for anyone with a very basic understanding of the history of the region to see that this was an inevitable reaction to 70+ years of brutal subjugation and state sponsored violence.
Global South Sees U.S. Congress Hail Israeli Killer Of 39,000 Of Their People Mostly Women And Kids | Countercurrents
The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that as of the end of July, 2024, more than 39,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been slaughtered in Gaza by the Israeli military using hegemon U.S.A.’s mighty weapons of mass destruction.[1] A good deal of people in the awakening Global South have learned that those tens of thousands precious Palestinian lives of mostly women and children were ordered taken by the criminally insane Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Lancet Warns Gaza Death Toll Could Be Over 186,000| Countercurrents
The Lancet, the prestigious peer-reviewed British medical journal, has warned that the true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. This staggering figure amounts to 8 percent of the population of Gaza. A similar percentage of the US population would be 26 million people. It stands as an indictment of the United States and its imperialist allies, who have funded, armed and politically defended Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Israel Is Besieging Gaza’s Wounded And Sick To Death, Preventing Their Ability To Travel For Treatment| Countercurrents
Palestinian Territory – The international community must effectively pressure Israel to open the border crossings and allow sick and injured people to leave the Gaza Strip for treatment. Thousands of sick and injured people face certain death as they are unable to receive treatment in the Strip amid the destruction or travel elsewhere, due to Israel’s systematic targeting of the region’s health sector—which has rendered most of its components inoperable—and the strict Israeli siege.
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